/ NEWS: Glowacz and Team - Baffin Island Big Wall

Take the Long Way Home is their 700m, 21 pitch route up a formation called The Bastion. With difficulties up to F8a+ and A4 it is likely the hardest route on Baffin Island.

The name of the route comes from the epic journey back to civilisation that followed the climb. They travelled for 16 days on foot and skis to reach Clyde River - a small settlement over 200 miles from their starting point.

Is this down to the fact that sport grades in the UK in the 1980s were brick hard, and then during the 1990s, on the continent 9as became almost ten a penny (and 8bs were your warm up) even though Hubble and Action Direct were 8c+ according to Moon."